View full sizeSaravalan KumaresanA Beaverton family says nearly $100,000 in jewelry and family heirlooms as well as personal documents were taken from their home in a burglary on March 10. Police have been unable to track down any suspects.

Saravalan Kumaresan says he’s unsure his Beaverton home will ever feel the same again after a burglary last week robbed his family of near $100,000 in jewelry, personal documents and their feeling of security.

Kumaresan, who lives with his wife, Ramiya, and two children, said police have been unable to track down any suspects involved in their home being burglarized last Saturday. The fact that the suspects are still at large has done little to bring his family closure.

“This last week hasn’t been easy,” he said.

Kumaresan said his wife and kids, aged 6 and 12, were away visiting friends between 7:30 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. on March 10. They returned to find the glass door leading to the home’s rear patio shattered and called 911.

When officers arrived they found it was apparent that the master bedroom had been searched and a safe was taken from the room. The safe contained naturalization documents, passports, education degrees and jewelry. Other pieces of jewelry outside of the safe were also taken, but the other rooms of the house were virtually untouched.

Kumaresan estimates the jewelry lost reached near $100,000 and many of them were family heirlooms that have been passed down through his family and his wife’s family.

“Besides the monetary value, these items have great sentimental value to my wife and I,” he said. “The thought that we will be unable to pass them on to our kids has been very devastating for us.”

Kumaresan said it could take six to nine months to replace the naturalization forms and his family’s plans to do some traveling outside of the country this summer will have to be put on hold. He said he is also concerned that if anything happens to his or his wife’s elderly parents back in India, they will be unable to get to them.

Beaverton Police spokesman Sgt. Jim Shumway said no suspects have been identified in connection to last weekend’s burglary and the case is still under investigation.

“A key question for us is was this family hit randomly or were they targeted,” he said. “We still haven’t found the answer to that yet but we hope to soon.”

Kumaresan believes his family was targeted and said he has heard of other cases of similar burglaries occurring to families of Indian descent in the Portland-area. He hopes news of what happened to his family will no only lead to the return of his lost items, but cause similar cases to be more closely examined by authorities.

“Our kids don’t feel safe in their home anymore,” he said. “It’s not a good feeling to be nervous in your own home.”

Anyone with more information on this case is encouraged to contact Beaverton Police Department by calling the non-emergency dispatch line at 503 629-0111.